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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Many companies/publishers/authors simply do not see the value in duplicating their effort and making multiple formats, each of which has to be maintained, edited and compared to each other with every small change. And as various sources publicly credit Amazon a healthy 70%, give or take, of the ebook market (whatever Amazon itself says), picking a Kindle-only product would seem to make sense for a lot of book producers.
It's the same attitude that kept publishers from releasing backlist books as ebooks (of any format), until they were convinced there was a reasonable market for them.
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But what a lot of people do not realize is that 70% is BS. There are also claims of B&N having 25%. That makes it 95%. So 5% split between Sony, Kobo, Jetbook, Pandigital, etc? Not possible. So the numbers for Amazon are seriously inflated and highly incorrect. This is US only of course.
Also, eBooks don't just stop at the US border. ePub is the #1 world wide format. so why is it that people cannot see past their own noses to see what's really going on in the world?
You go Amazon exclusive and you leave out more potential customers then you get.